European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday january 19,1990 the stars and stripes Page 23 the super 49erscbs could sell Montana highlights by Kevin la tale Cox news service now comes inc toughest sales pitch in sports for the rest of this week and All next week the nil office and lbs have to convince America there really is reason to Tunc in Jan. 28 for san Francisco is. Denver. Good Luck. There might be More intrigue to Hud bowl it than super bowl xxiv. The big parly in new Orleans looks like a not her acc hashing. About the Only new twist to this super bowl from the last five All pfc victories is we Haven t seen the 49crs beat up on the Broncos yet. Las vegas immediately made san Francisco a in Point favorite. Within two hours so Many bettors had jumped on the liners that the line zoomed to 11 a Points the largest super bowl spread in 20 years. Really the Best match in football right now would be san Francisco is. San Francisco. The 49crs offence is. Inc 49civ defense these a incurs Aren t Only playing for another nil title. They arc playing for the Ages. The team of the �?~80s is scaling a High Standard for the �?T90s. The 49crs arc going after their fourth super bowl championship a Mark matched by Only the Pittsburgh steel cars now there s a thought can t we dream a matchup of the old steel cars is. The new 49ers into san Francisco has elevated the sport to a new level. The 49cr\ Don t just play football they Leach it. They Are so methodical so streamlined so dynamic. On Oilene. They have More weapons than anyone in fat nil history and the trigger Man. Joe Montana. Probe Bis is the Best Money quarterback the game has had. It was stunning sunday 10 see Montana already by Hulf time had used eight receivers to dissed the rams. On defense these arc the quiet killers. They Don t have big Mouths cheap shot artists or Many future Hall of a Nicks they silence their opponents in a work manlike was. A remarkable statistic is the 44ers Haven t allowed n touchdown in their last three pfc championship games. Since Bill Walsh turned the program around in 1981. San Francisco has a 12-4 . In their last five playoff games the 49er% have Nuis cured opponents 153-44, these 49crs Are like the liners r>1 �?~k4. The bears of 85 and the giants of Kab. Dominating m every Way. This is no longer a finesse team. Anyone who saw the Way they manhandled the Vikings and rams in the trenches and on the scoreboard 71-16 knows that. The 49ers land Lull Hooks to the body until opponents crumple to i hair Knees. Jim Everett was so afraid of the liners Rush that he sacked himself once late in the third Quarter. The Only 49er who did t get Down and dirty on a Muddy Irasek in candlestick sunday was Montana and 1 Hill s n in Bitic to an offensive line with muscle and his own mobility. Montana painted a with his 26-ol -3 performance. Any Case one can build Lor the Broncos in this game revolves around John Elway. The Golden boy does have More help tins Lime. Too. The Broncos have a Betler running game and a much stronger defense than the ones squashed by the giant and redskins in recent super bowls and they Hast had Success against the 49ers. The Broncos were the Only team Walsh never heal in 10 years at san Francisco losing eight times hive were preseason games. Realistically though the Broncos have Only a prayer against arguably the in l s All time fim is team. The 49ers me destined to join the St Elvis in glory with four victories in Lour super Bow i tries just a the Broncos figure to live m infamy with the Vikings and their Tor four super truck record. Perhaps the 49ers team bus will gel stuck in pregame traffic and Nuss the game. Hut a better idea for the Broncos someone loss these Guys a life jacket. They re about to drown. And they la take chs along with them. For anything Short of a Joe Willie Namath super Bow l imitation by Elway will have about 50 million americans flipping channels to nor s a sunday night hungry for a fourth super bowl sunday by Dave Goldberg a p twit Hall writer Santa Clara. Cult. A Bubba Paris stood in front of his locker Ai the san Francisco 49erx training Center and shared cookies with visitors then tried to explain Why the 49crs Are on the verge of nil history. Because he said they done to believe m history Quot i Don i care what happened in the past. Nobody does. We feet like we have everything to said the 348-Pound part time left tackle of a team that will be Gorng fur its fourth super bowl Jan. 28. Make it a accomplish Quot instead of if the 49ers beat Denver they become the tint team since the Pittsburgh steel cars a decade ago to repeal As nil champions and they lie inc Slac tire record of four victories in four super bowl tries. They re expected to. With the Best regular season record at 14-2 and to play olt wins by an aggregate of 7116 in the arguably tougher of cd. They enter the game As prohibitive favourites. Bui particularly this season with George Seifert replacing Hill Walsh As coach they talk like a team playing its first big game. If one incentive is winning for Seifert a and without Walsh whose Quot Genius image sometimes obscured the accomplishment of his players a they also have their internal thermostat. Or As almost even player on the team Puis it Quot Quot jamming together the first names of three of the me 49ers who have played on All three championship teams. Quot if there a anything i be Learned Here its never to believe in yesterdays news Quot says free safety Ronnie Lott. Quot ivc got three rings they Don t mean anything Quot says linebacker Kcena Turner. And Joe Montana coming off perhaps the Best season by any quarterback is invariably self effacing. It s not his doing he says it s the work of Kcena and Ronnie inc offensive line inc receivers inc running backs and so on a Seifert offensive coordinator Mike Holmgren Walsh owner Edward Debartolo or. And his wife Jennifer not necessarily in that order. This week has been filled with far More machismo from the Broncos who approach the game from the opposite pole of the football world from the 49m. Blown nut of the 1987 and 88 games by the giants and redskins a loss by the Broncos would lie them with Man Nevonia As the Only learn to lose four super Rywk Denver owner Patrick bowmen for example managed not Only to alienate the asian population of the Bay area when he referred to Jerry Rice As Quot a chinaman who plays wide receiver Quot he also provided bulletin Hiniard material for the 49ers when he declared Quot i think it would be an upset Kitwe a 49cr would rather have his Tongue Cut out than to say anything like that. As for ethnic references about All anyone can get out old a Sun Francisco player Are discussions by Center Jesse Sapolu of samoan feasts or the a Happy Lanuk Kah Quot mouthed from the sidelines by right tackle Harris Barton during the final Reg ular season game on Christmas eve. Most of the color comes from Guys who came from elsewhere a Jamie Williams the deadlocked Light end who reads comic books to relax before games linebacker mull Millen who played on the renegade Raider super bowl winners m the 1980 and �?T83 seasons and nose tackle Jim Burt court Jester of the giants �?T86 champions and the Centrepiece of an insurance commercial in which he dances across a stage in a Tutu. Quot you can believe the i herein c Between this place and the raiders Quot Millen says. Quot Howie Long would go chasing Guys around the locker room. Alzado would try to bite Guys then John status a would come running Over and jell to sane. I m sane but these Guys know How to w in the same Way the raiders there Are similarities. Like Al Davis and the raiders the 49crs Are Security conscious. Their Santa Clara training base iras Security guards rather than receptionists and pubic re lations people sometimes shoo reporters away from players even when the players Are perfectly willing to talk. Some of that has been relaxed by Seifert although As Walsh s defensive coordinator he has supplied a much needed continuity that s spelled out to the younger players by . Does t every team want to win Quot sure Quot says Williams who Felt like he landed on Mars after leaving the Quot House san Francisco s Joe Montana alms to stick Demer with its fourth super howl loss of ram craziness m Houston As a plan 11 tree agent. Quot Bui some done to know How if you Pul All he Talent Here and All the Talent in Houston into a barrel and Shook it out the oilers might Haw a link More. Hut the difference is that the organization there does t have a due Huw to do it. Here everyone the Best example of that Altitude came the Day after san Francisco beat the los Angeles rams 30-3 to win the pfc title. Lon was asked if the thigh Bruise he incurred in the game might keep him out of next week s game. He paused. A hard Luok came into his eyes. He raised his voice a Little Quot i Don t think there a a then his eyes got harder his voice got louder and he continued. A if my leg was Cut olt yeah t might miss the game. But this come on. It s the super now that sounds like a True Raider. Make it a 49er
